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African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
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Title: African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Alternate Title: Quest for Full Citizenship
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html External Link
Description: The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. The exhibit includes depictions of the long journey following the Civil War towards equality in employment, education and politics, strategies used to secure the vote, recognition of outstanding black leaders, and the contributions of sports figures, black soldiers, artists, actors, writers and others in the fight against segregation and discrimination

Features the exhibition of the Library of Congress entitled "The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship" located in Washington D.C. Presents a chronology of the African American experience including slavery, the work of abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the civil rights era.
GEM Subjects:
Arts
Film
Music
Social Studies
Anthropology
Civics
United States history
Subjects: African Americans--History--Exhibitions.
Abolitionists--19th century.
Slavery.
Civil rights movements.
DLF-specific Subjects:American Culture
Geographic Coverage: North America (continent)
Objects Represented: Photographs / slides / negatives
Format: image/jpeg
image/tiff
Interaction with Collection: Exhibit
Frequency of additions: Irregularly
Notes: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress

Began in 1998?
This Record Last Updated By: khage@umich.edu
This Record Last Updated On: 10/13/2007 10:31:12 PM
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